On 2014-07-30 21:26, KrakenHunterSteve wrote:Can anyone give me information on the vendor who had the ceramic tiles printed with exotica album covers?

The vendor shared a space with Tiki Al. The vendor has a moniker of Gonzo Tiki on Facebook. His Facebook page has his art and prices listed. Some really nice stuff. Let me know if you have trouble contacting him.

well shoots, i guess i am coming back for this one. Check out a wee bit of madness i am working on for the event. these are the Frankies Lava Letch mugs that i designed, produced by Tiki Farm. I am painting up 24 "Golden Zombies". 5 are spoken for, so i will have 19 available for S150. each. Here is what they look like to start with:

Here I have painted them all black with 1 shot enamel, and now i am working on the details with metallic enamel. thanks for looking.

I will also have 2 other one of a kind painted mugs, canvas and paper prints, Green Zombie Tiki Pendants, and my new hand-painted alumimum "Makua" pendants cast by the indefatigable MK Grider Company, which go for $40.

These are guaranteed to ward off the bad spirits, especially the ones in the Brady Bunch TIKI CAVES episode!

My husband, Tiki Bong, is selling an 8 foot 3 inch lodge pole carved by Mr. Leroy Schmaltz at the world-famous Oceanic Arts. This lodge pole was originally carved for The Tiki Bar on Placentia Ave in Costa Mesa, and was installed there for a few years. His friend and original drummer for the Hula Girls, Dominic Tucchi, was friends with the original owner of the Tiki Bar. The bar changed hands and the new owners removed 2 of the carved lodge poles, I think about 2 or 3 remain. We bought the lodge pole from Dominic around 2002. The pole features 4 tiki faces carved around the pole; the eye of one face is shared with another and so on around. The carving starts starts 26 inches from the top, and is 3 feet in length, the last 3 feet are not carved. It was another of Leroy’s great ideas. As soon as we told Bob van Oosting at OA I had bought the pole, he immediately made a copy of the original invoice, which will go with the pole for provenance. The cost at the time was $505.60 for the pole, $139.50 for the carving, and $10 for the sanding, staining and sealing. All this is detailed on the invoice copy. We are asking $900 for the pole and this to be a fair price given the artist that carved it and its history. If you are interested, message me, Madame Bong. Tiki Bong's band, The Smokin’ Menehunes will be playing at the International Tiki Market Place this Saturday, October 11th. You can talk to him then if you want. We only live about 20 minutes away in Huntington Beach. It is one heavy piece and will have to be a pick-up.